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April 26, 2017

The Cost of Desegregation

We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a

June 4, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

November 4, 2020

A Sham “Election Day”

Culture·History·Religion

Augustus, Herod, and the Innocents

March 28, 2017

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Giovanni Papini’s The Life of Christ (published 1923). Octavius Augustus When Christ appeared upon the earth, criminals ruled the world unopposed. He was born subject

Culture·History·Philosophy·Religion

Modernism: The Shapes That End Our Destiny

March 27, 2017

As a child, I often wandered around the 3-story brownstone mansion (so it seemed to me) of my grandparents. Memory renders it a mythical place, set at the end of a winding road at

History·Legal

"Of Rights and the Nature and Necessity of Laws"

March 25, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from Young’s Civil Government, a civics primer for home and school use published in 1848. “The grand object of civil government is to secure to the members

History·Politics

The Greatest President You Don't Know

March 17, 2017

In this silly season of American politics, a common conversation is held in barbershops and forums, in person and on the web: Who was the greatest of all American presidents? In my

History·Politics

Republican Party: Red From the Start

March 16, 2017

Many patriots these days lament that the Republican Party has lost its way and gone wrong. It has diverged from the fiscally responsible, small government philosophy of Republican heroes like Robert Taft

History

Man of the West: Nathan Hale

March 13, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Lives of Patriots and Heroes, by John S. Jenkins (1847). At the time this book was published, the memory of Nathan Hale, and his

History

Man of the West: Nathanael Greene

March 10, 2017

Nathanael Greene was a true Man of the West. Oddly enough, those who first met him often discounted his strength and attributes. You see, Greene had a pronounced limp and had no

History

Book Review: Southeastern Europe Under Ottomon Rule

March 4, 2017

Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. Peter F. Sugar. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. 365 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-295-96033-7 Peter Sugar presents this volume in the History of East Central

History

The Short, Violent Life of the CSS Arkansas

March 3, 2017

In the Winter of 1861-62, the folks in Memphis were busy building two new Confederate rams, the Tennessee and the Arkansas. In April of ’62, the Arkansas was moved up the Yazoo

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History - Page 121

The Cost of Desegregation

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

A Sham “Election Day”

More on the Muslim Question

Augustus, Herod, and the Innocents

Modernism: The Shapes That End Our Destiny

"Of Rights and the Nature and Necessity of Laws"

The Greatest President You Don't Know

Republican Party: Red From the Start

Man of the West: Nathan Hale

Man of the West: Nathanael Greene

Book Review: Southeastern Europe Under Ottomon Rule

The Short, Violent Life of the CSS Arkansas

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